what is the concept of view in material master?

[Former Member]

Hello sap gurus

Some quetions regarding Material Master

what is the concept of views in material master ?

what is determined by specifying industry sector in material master ?

To sell material which views are material are maintened in Material master?

Regards

Amit

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Views are "windows" into MM data. These can be used as a high level authorization breakdown.

Industry sector information determines:

which screens will appear and in what sequence

what industry-specific data will appear on the MM

To sell a material you have to maintain the, er, uh, Sales views

[Former Member]

Hi,

<b>Material master for finished ggods is related with SD, MM & PP departments</b>. If you carefully go through the various screens in MM record you will realize the importance of the respective fields and the department to which they belong.

<b>1.Suppose Base unit of measure</b> in Basic data 1 screen. The production people will keep the stock of the item using this UOM.

<b>2. In Sales:Sales Org.1</b> screen we have sales unit in which we will sell the material.

<b>3. Then we have the plant</b> data in which we enter the delivering plant. Also the taxes are determined from the plant so we have the settings for taxes also - whether this material is fully taxable/50% tax/Tax exempted.

<b>4. Then we have purchasing</b> screen in which the data like the purchasing group, variable units,etc are entered. This will effect the purchasing cycle when we are procuring a material from outside. This is related to MM.

<b>5. The we have MRP</b>, this is related to PP as to how to manufacture the product, the MRP type, the strategy group - whether it is MTO/MTS like that.

<b>5. Sales:Sales Org.2 screen</b> - Here we mainatin the account assignment group which is very important as far as the generation of the accounting document is concerned. This triggers the system where to post the value in which G/L account. Accounting document is generated when we create the invoice in VF01 & save it.

<b>6. Work scheduling</b> - Related with the sceduling of the production as to whether underdelivery or overdelivery is allowed, the storage location

<b>7. Quality</b> - Here you can select for a particular finished item where where it has to be checked for quality during its journey from the raw material stage to the finished goods store as a finished item.

<b>8. Accounting</b> - Related to accounting, product costing, total value of the stock in hand, etc. Also related with FI & PP

So all the screens have data which effects one or more modules for the proper functioning of the system to give the optimum results.

<b>Industry Sector:</b>

Key that specifies the branch of industry to which the material is assigned.

<b>Use</b>

When you create a material master record, the industry sector you specify determines

1. which screens appear and in what order

2. which industry-specific fields appear on the individual screens

<b>Screens for Sales:</b>

Sales:Sales Org.1, Sales:Sales Org.2. But other screens also have data which is related to sales. You cannot just maintain the sales views and save the master. It has to be properly linked with the other modules also for the proper functioning of the system. That is why the system is called as "Enterprise Resource Planning" You have to paln the resources of your company and these resources are related with all the modules.

Reward points if solution helps.

Regards,

Allabaqsh G. Patil

[Former Member]

Hello Bill

Thanks for prompt reply to my answer.

Amit